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Supernatural horror in literature. / With a new introd. by E.F. Bleiler.
LIBRA - Special PN3435 .L64 1973
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror tales--History and criticism.
- Horror tales.
- Supernatural in literature.
- Literature.
- Supernatural.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 106 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover Publications, [1973]
- Summary:
- Great modern American supernaturalist brilliantly surveys history of genre to 1930s, summarizing, evaluating scores of books, including works by Poe, Bierce, M.R. James, "Monk" Lewis, many others. Praised by critics as diverse as Edmund Wilson and Vincent Starrett. New introduction by E. F. Bleiler [from publisher's description]
- Contents:
- Dawn of the Horror Tale
- Early Gothic Novel
- Apex of Gothic Romance
- Aftermath of Gothic Fiction
- Spectral Literature on the Continent
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Weird Tradition in America
- Weird Tradition in the British Isles
- Modern Masters.
- Notes:
- Reprint of the 1945 ed. published by B. Abramson, New York.
- ISBN:
- 0486201058
- 9780486201054
- OCLC:
- 705022
- Online:
- Publisher description
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